Spin Class Full? Feel the Burn From Your Living Room

Peloton isnât the only company offering an alternative to boutique fitness classes and vying for a piece of the health club industryâs nearly $ 26 billion in revenue. Companies like Daily Burn, Qinetic and FitFusion offer members unlimited streaming video workout classes free or for a small monthly cost.

These companies provide what could be called virtual fitness services, said Dana Macke, senior research analyst at Mintel, a market research firm.

The trend is still emerging. Just 15 percent of consumers who are regular exercisers have paid for a fitness video subscription, and only 16 percent are interested in purchasing one, according to Mintel research.

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Peleton’s C.E.O., John Foley, who said he came up with the idea for the company after fatherhood made taking traditional classes difficult.Credit Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times

Ms. Macke said most of these video services had a drawback: a lack of interaction. Companies like Yogaia, based in Helsinki, Finland, have a least partly solved this problem by enabling teachers to see students and offer instructions during live classes. Yogaia has raised $ 3 million in funding and charges its 10,000 or so monthly users about $ 9 a month for live and on-demand video classes, a company spokeswoman said.

Physique 57, a ballet-inspired barre workout studio, now uses a combination of physical studios, where classes cost about $ 30 each, and video on demand, for which a monthly subscription is around $ 30.

âRelying only on brick-and-mortar locations will take too long,â said Jennifer Vaughan Maanavi, the chief executive and co-founder of Physique 57. âWe have so many people doing on demand who donât live anywhere near a gym, let alone a boutique fitness studio.â

Cody is a fitness streaming service that started as a social network in 2013. âWe had someone attend once from a weather station near the North Pole,â Pejman Pour-Moezzi, a co-founder of Cody, said in an email. âAnd thereâs an active community of women in Saudi Arabia that attend as well.â Cody has 100,000 paying members, and its revenue was $ 3 million last year. The company became profitable last month, Mr. Pour-Moezzi said.

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Alex Toussaintâs cycling class at Peleton in Manhattan. Other participants were able to log in remotely from their exercise bikes and join in the class.Credit Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times

While boutique fitness studios and virtual fitness programs are growing, 35 percent of regular exercisers still have a traditional gym membership, Mintel research says. âThe larger opportunity here is for the apps that can be used both at home and in a traditional gym to really open up these services to a larger audience,â Ms. Macke said, referring to apps like Skyfit, CycleCast, LiveRowing and Pear Sports.

Ethan Agarwal, founder and chief executive of Skyfit, an app with a variety of audio fitness classes, said, âI think there is a largely untapped market of folks who are working out by themselves who still need guidance, or who would appreciate some training, but for whatever reason are unable to get it right now. Thatâs the space that we play in.â Skyfit has raised about $ 1.5 million in funding.

CycleCast streams audio fitness classes for stationary bikes through its app. LiveRowing has taken one of the oldest exercise devices, the rowing machine, and enabled users to race one another and to connect to a community of rowers through the companyâs app. The Pear Sports app syncs with a heart-rate monitor, and in-app trainers tell users when they should push themselves or slow down. The company has raised nearly $ 6 million in funding, according to the market research firm CB Insights.

Pear Sports sells a Bluetooth heart-rate monitor, although most of these companies are not selling hardware, technology and content the way Peloton is. But Mr. Foley knows that he will not be without competitors for long. Executives at SoulCycle have previously indicated that they are interested in joining the marketplace.

âWe are running scared thinking that other people are going to get into the category,â Mr. Foley said. âWe know it will happen. Whether it happens next year or two years from now and whether itâs two or three competitors or 10 competitors, we donât know.â

A version of this article appears in print on September 18, 2016, on page BU6 of the New York edition with the headline: Spin Class Full? Feel the Burn From Home.